Configuring A Pki Entity - HP 6600 Security Configuration Manual

Task
Requesting a certificate
Obtaining certificates
Verifying PKI certificates
Destroying the local RSA key pair
Removing a certificate
Configuring an access control policy

Configuring a PKI entity

A certificate is the binding of a public key and the identity information of an entity, where the identity
information is identified by an entity distinguished name (DN). A CA identifies a certificate applicant
uniquely by entity DN.
An entity DN is defined by these parameters:
Common name of the entity.
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• Country code of the entity, a standard 2-character code. For example, CN represents China and US
represents the United States.
FQDN of the entity, a unique identifier of an entity on the network. It consists of a host name and
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a domain name and can be resolved to an IP address. For example, www.whatever.com is an
FQDN, where www is a host name and whatever.com a domain name.
IP address of the entity.
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Locality where the entity resides.
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Organization to which the entity belongs.
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• Unit of the entity in the organization.
State where the entity resides.
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The configuration of an entity DN must comply with the CA certificate issue policy. You need to determine,
for example, which entity DN parameters are mandatory and which are optional. Otherwise, certificate
requests might be rejected.
To configure a PKI entity:
Step
1. Enter system view.
2. Create an entity and enter its
view.
3. Configure the common name
for the entity.
Configuring automatic
certificate request
Manually requesting a
certificate
Command
system-view
pki entity entity-name
common-name name
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Remarks
Required.
Use either method.
Optional.
Optional.
Optional.
Optional.
Optional.
Remarks
N/A
No entity exists by default.
You can create up to two entities
on a device.
Optional.
No common name is specified by
default.